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Event	*Digital Futures: from digitization to delivery*
Location	London, United Kingdom
Date	April 7-11, 2008
Organization	King's College London
Annotation	ICPSR is regularly digitizes materials received in paper form.

Event	*What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects*
Location	British Library Conference Centre, London
Date	April 7, 2008
Organization	sponsored by JISC, British Library, Digital Preservation Coalition
Annotation	ICPSR will align our current view of significant properties for digital objects with the outcomes from this conference.

Event	*1st African Digital Management and Curation Conference and Workshop*
Location	CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
Date	February 12-13, 2008
Organization	Department of Science and Technology and Academy of Science of South Africa
Annotation	Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer at ICPSR, and Kevin Schurer, Director of the UK Data Archive, will both be presenting at this conference.

Event	European Web Archive Web Archiving Training Session
Location	Paris, France
Date	February 6-7, 2008
Organization	European Web Archive
Annotation	Web content is becoming increasingly important for comprehensive collections at ICPSR.

Event	International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2007)
Location	Beijing, China (National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Date	October 11-12, 2007
Description	This is the fourth iPres meeting, a digital preservation conference that has been hosted (and sponsored) by organizations in China, Germany, and the U.S.
Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer at ICPSR, will present a paper at iPRES 2007 on digital preservation policies. She served on the program committee for iPRES 2006, hosted by Cornell University.
Release	*Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist*
Organization	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Date	March 2007
Description	The TRAC document supports self-assessment and audit of digital archives. This initiative was formerly the Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories by the RLG-NARA Digital Repository Certification Task Force.
ICPSR served as a test site for developing the TRAC document and is committed to periodic self-assessment and audit, when the mechanism for audit within the community becomes available.